Talk:West Indian Ocean coelacanth

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Gombessa
The local common name for these fish appears to be "gombessa", also a name which is used by some conservation efforts. They are referred to as such by numerous articles and scientific publications (e.g. Bucciarelli, G., Bernardi, G., & Bernardi, G. (2002). An ultracentrifugation analysis of two hundred fish genomes. Gene, 295(2), 153-162.) Should this be used as the article title as per the Wiki policy on common names? The current title "West Indian Ocean coelacanth" seems to be more of a description of the gombessa than a name. Also, "West Indian Ocean coelacanth" currently yields 40 results on Google Scholar vs. 64 for gombessa. Several sources seem to use "gombessa" for Latimeria as a whole, I'm not sure if there is an equivalent common name for the Indonesian species? Dinoguy2 (talk) 11:36, 25 August 2015 (UTC)